Andrei Allen UCA Broadcast Media Blog

Here's the video advertisement for the show

So that The Homecoming audio sounds crisp when the audience is viewing the advert, i contacted my sound engineer/producer friend Aaron Evo Boswell to level out the audio from each clip and eq it so that it sounds the best that it can.

So that he was able to eq the audio for the project, i first sent him over a low quality video of the advert that would be able to playback on Q base (non linear audio editing software) smoothly without taking up much processing. I then rendered out each individual audio channel inside of Adobe Premiere, keeping it aligned with the correct timing, so that he'd be able to mix down each channel. (Kellison, 191:2009)








Once Evo had finished mastering the audio, he then blended together all the separate audio elements into a final mix track - that i was then able to 'marry' to the picture and lock it in.  (Kellison, 193:2009)

Having completed filming and organising all of the footage into its respected folders, i then dragged those folders into Adobe Premier Pro and began to select then edit the footage that i wanted onto the timeline.



Once i had the footage that i wanted to use on the timeline, i then imported it into after effect into a template that i had purchased.


Because the template works by having pre composed compositions ("multiple layers that represent components such as video and audio footage items, animated text and vector graphics, still images, and lights." https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/composition-basics.html), most of the time consuming work was done, allowing me to insert my footage within the place holders (compositions), plus adjust the project file to how i see fit.


Where i filmed some scenes specifically for me to edit, this allowed me to do some match cuts - matching action from one scene, to similar action from another scene allowing me to transition from one scene to another scene. (Harris, 474:2012)


Danny Shannon

Extreme close up to Mid shot of Danny doing bag work; cut quickly so that it looks smooth.





Grant Dennis 

Grant does a matching combo on his opponent as he done on the boxing bag.





Because of the limited time i had with the advert, i also made use of multi-framming, in which i had multiple images showing on the screen at once, showing different scenes of the same boxer (Kelison, 186: 2009)





Due to the nature of the project, i edited the majority of the footage using the quick cut editing technique in which the projected combined "fast cuts, jump cuts, montages, and special graphics effects" (Kelison, 184: 2009) to convey the action packed idea of the show.
One complete, i then rendered a rough cut for the promoter to see, just to receive feedback and see if he was ok with everything.




Satisfied with the edit, Joe then asked me about music to which i played to him a track created by my producer friend Kenny Davis called metal gear solid Rapture world.





Happy with the track, he gave me the go ahead to mix the track in with the footage. Having already edited the footage, this just meant making my edits a bit tighter, and matching it to the music.

I then contacted Kenny and asked him to customise the track more making the intro longer and to send me two versions with the ad-libs and without the ad-libs. I also mentioned that i'd need a royalty free licence from him, giving me permission to use the music, plus told him that i'd invoice him for the licence.

So that Kenny could get an idea of how i wanted the intro for the track, i sent him a rough cut bootleg edit of how i wanted it.

After a successful week of shooting, here's the type of shots that i managed to get with brief explanations behind some of the shots.

I also managed to collect dvd's off of the boxers who've had fights as well.

For the shots i set my frame rate to 25fps in order to make my footage look slightly softer and to give it that filmic look (Kelson, 151:2009)

While i was filming i shot sequences of most of the different scenes. Because i was going to be editing the footage, i shot anticipating the editing process because "It is very important to think about the editing process when shooting"(Owens, 186: 2013), "Otherwise, it is possible to end up with a series of shots that do not fit together smoothly." (Owens, 187: 2013)



Establishing shots of Medway park

For this shot i used my 18-75mm zoom lens at 18mm to capture medway park as a wide shot, fitting as much of the picture within the frame as possible in order to capture an establishing shot "also called a master shot, it establishes the scene and what's going on in it." (Kelson, 168,: 2009) "A specific type of extreme long shot used to tell the audience where and when the program takes place." (Harris, 95:2012)
Throughout the Medway Park scene it then cuts to a close up that allows "the viewer to see more details as compared to the long shot of this same scene" (Owens, 158: 2013) providing more contextual information within the image so that the audience understands the subject more clearly (Owens, 178: 2013)








I filmed this scene for the edit in order for me to do a match cut "A Type of edit in which a similar action, concept, item, or a combination of these is placed on either side of a cut." (Harris, 474:2012)






In order to convey the serious dedicated emotions from the boxers, i filmed some extreme close ups of their face because "By filling the screen with the face, it easily communicates the emotion of the situation. A closeup of an object allows the viewer to understand the detail a bit more" (Owens, 157: 2013)







I filmed some of my shots of the boxers at a low angle looking upwards so that the composition would insinuate that the boxer looks "important, strong, or powerful" (Owens, 164: 2013)

Having visited the locations that I'm to film the boxers in during my spare time; where the gyms are local to me, i decided to use this chance to do a location recce. This was done in order to make sure that where I'm filming is safe, but also to make sure that the type of shots that i want to get; i will be able to film within a controlled environment.

Due to the shoot days being short, i've not included any information about places to eat at, as the shoots are only going to be 1hr 30 mins.


Here are the forms below:

For this project the equipment I'm going to be using is: my Sony A7s plus my Canon 50mm f1.8 lens,  17-85mm f4-5.6 lens for wide shots; headphones for monitoring the audio, plus my tripod to get some stable shots of Medway Park;  also my ND Grad filter incase the weather is to sunny when i film Medway Park.

Not using the Zoom H4M recorder